May 11, 2026

Covenant University Ranked BEST University In Nigeria [World Ranking]

By Farouk Mohammed

Covenant University has ranked the best University in Nigeria, According to Times Higher Education (THE).

The rankings, which were unveiled on Wednesday at Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit at the National University of Singapore, included just three Nigerian Universities.

A sum of 1250 Universities were ranked.

In a statement release on its site, THE revealed that it ranked 13 performance indicators which are placed under five categories.

Quoted from the statement;

“The execution pointers are gathered into five zones: instructing (the learning condition); examine (volume, pay and notoriety); references (explore impact); worldwide outlook(staff, understudies and research); and industry wage (information exchange),” the statement read.

Covenant university was was ranked 636 in the World, while The University of Ibadan was ranked 677, an improvement from the 2017 and 2018 rankings where it fell in the 800-1000 range.

University of Nigeria, Nsukka was ranked 1161.

In the rank positions released by THE revealed that Covenant University has 9,369; the University of Ibadan, 25,426 and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 32,429.

THE releases the rankings a year ahead of the actual year, thus naming its 2019 best university in 2018.

In its 2017 and 2018 rankings, University of Ibadan was ranked around 800-1000 range.

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